 | English poetry - 1807 - 218 pages
...than here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture plac'd the busts between Gives satire all its strength :...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. AN Irish footman, carrying a basket of game from his master to a friend, waited some time for the customary... | |
 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...than here you'll find, Nor Pope hirmelf e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind : The picture plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength—...WISDOM and WIT are little seen, But FOLLY— at full Ic-'gtb. EFFECTS OF .SLAVERY. COMMUNICATION. LEKGTH PORTRAIT. A GENTLEMAN who h^ j.ifl been reading... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...than here you'll find ; ^*or Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at fulllength. ON SEEING MISS VASSAL (NOW LADY HOLLAND) At a Masquerade, February 37, 1786. IMPERIAL nymph... | |
 | Epigrams - 1812 - 156 pages
...than here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ;...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. XXI. In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel to mankind. The Picture plac'd the busts between (Jives satire all its strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen But Folly at full-length. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, ending 12th January, 181 Printed for JOBS COOK, !w E. 2^ E. Honour.,... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...« M / a, nl Mr. Pope in the rooms at Bath. Immortal Newton never spoke More truth than here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penned a joke More cruel...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. SIMPLICITY EXEMPLIFIED. When Dr. Percy jirst published his collection of Ancient English Ballads, he... | |
 | Jacob Green - Europe - 1831 - 296 pages
...Pope, on which occasion Lord Chesterfield wrote the following epigram — This statue placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at fvtt length. The town rises gradually on the high banks of the river Avon, which here bends so as to... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 pages
...— " Immortal Newton never spoke, More truth than here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke, More cruel on mankind. The picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all her strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." A statue of Beau Nash is... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pages
...Beau Nash, between the busts if Pope and Newton, in the pump-room at Bath : _„ . . ,,ii , •Ibis picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length.' Perhaps his best bon-mot was that on hearing of the marriage fa man of low family, with the daughter... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope, produced from his lordship this epigram : — This picture plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ;...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. After he became irremediably deaf, he used to say, " In spite of my strong hereditary right to deafness,... | |
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This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. 
